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Yer see he wuz my ole oberseer, Mahs'r, an' wuz powerful good ter me, tu. I'd a heap ruther hev his name than Marse Desmit's; but I don't want no name but Nimbus, nohow. "All right," said the chairman, as he made the entry. "Ware it is then."
The whuppin' was done by de oberseer or driver, who would say as he put de whup to de back, 'Pray sir, pray sir! "I seed slaves sol' oft'ener dan you got fingers an' toes. You know I tol' you dere was a sellin' block close to our sto'. Den plen'y niggers had to be chained to a tree or post 'cause he would run 'way an' wouldn' wuk.
"De fiel' oberseer do de whippin' on dat plantation," whispered Uncle Rufus, "an' Sally Alley knowed wot dat meant." "Oh, dear me!" cried tender-hearted Tess. "They didn't re'lly beat her?" "Don't try to get ahead of the story, Tess," said Agnes, but rather shakingly. "We'll all hear it together." "Das it," said Uncle Rufus. "Jes' gib Unc' Rufus time an' he'll tell it all.
"Well, now, I don't belieb you're 'fraid, not de way I yeard you talkin' to de oberseer wen he war threatnin' to hit your mudder. He saw you meant business, an' he let her alone. But, what's to hinder you from gwine wid us?" "My mother," he replied, in a low, firm voice. "That is the only thing that keeps me from going. If it had not been for her, I would have gone long ago.
Gray and Marcy did not want him on the place, and consequently Julius did not think he would be punished for butting him "good fashion." "Did Beardsley or Hanson say anything about me?" was Marcy's next question. "All I heard de cap'n say was dat de oberseer an' Shelby want to watch out dat you don't see 'em when you come out'n de house," replied Julius. "Dey don't want you to know dey was dar."
A darkey who has been as carefully brought up as you have wouldn't last long in the cotton fields." "But, Marse Jack," said Julius earnestly, "I kin prove dat I ain't tole you nuffin but the gospel truth. I kin fotch you de pin; but you musn't luff de oberseer whop me." "He shall not put a hand on you," Jack assured him.
Now I send her to de penumtenshury; now I send her dere to pick oakum in a crash gown and cropped hair, and an oberseer wid a big whip to drive her!" "What is she talking of? What does she mean by whited saltpeter?" inquired the judge. "'Whited sepulchre' is Katie's Scripture name for a hypocrite, I suppose," suggested Ishmael. "Not on'y for a hypocrite, Marse Ishmael!
'No, but I'll tell the Colonel the truth. He war sort o' sassy, and de Oberseer strung him up and flog him bery hard. Den Sam took to de swamp, but he didn't know whar to gwo, and de dogs tracked him; he'd ha' got 'way dough ef de Oberseer hadn't shot him; den he cudn't run.
"I come up in a leaky skiff las' night wid six boys dat do oberseer whip de Yankee out, he say; an' da say da go to Yankees now any how, an' I begged 'em to let me come, for da knows I has sich hard times. But da say, 'Aunt Peggy, de skiff leak so bad. But I tole 'em I's comin' wid a basin, an' I reckon I dip fas' enough to keep us 'bove water.
But when you was a low-down nigger an' got de debbil in yer, an' ole marsa hear it an' send de oberseer to de quarters for you to come to de little room in de big house whar de walls was all books an' whar his desk was, 't wa'n't no birds about his voice den, mo' like de thunder." "Did he whip his negroes?"
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